Marie C. Hoppes

January 12, 2006|The Morning Call

Marie C. Hoppes, 95, formerly of 28 N. 14th St., Allentown, died January 11, 2006 in Evangelical Congregation Church Retirement Village, Myerstown, Pa., where she resided. She was an elementary school teacher, teaching at Jefferson School for the Allentown School District for 43 years until retiring. Born in Allentown, she was the daughter of the late Edwin S. and Catherine (Yost) Hoppes. She was a 1938 graduate of Kutztown University. She was a member of Grace Evangelical Congregational Church, Whitehall, where she was the first president of the young peoples missionary society, a former secretary of the Senior Christian Endeavor and a former Sunday school teacher and superintendent of the junior department. She was a member and past secretary of the former Business and Professional Womens Club, Allentown; past secretary of the former Y.M.C.A. auxiliary, Allentown; past volunteer for the Y.M.C.A. gift shop and a past volunteer for Liberty Bell Shrine at Zions Reformed United Church of Christ, Allentown. She was a member of the Retired Teachers Association and a former corresponding secretary of the Allentown Womens Teachers Club.